Author: Carma Henry

       Welcome to Giving Tuesday, that special time of year when every organization, every acquaintance, and possibly even your old high school gym teacher pops out of retirement to remind you that your wallet hasn’t suffered enough.

  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that it is formally terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian nationals, ordering hundreds of thousands of people legally living and working in the U.S. to prepare to leave early next year.

       So it’s hardly surprising when Trump degrades female reporters. But the president reached a new low even for him when he referred to Bloomberg News White House correspondent reporter Catherine Lucey as “Piggy” last week aboard Air Force One.

Parkway Middle School continued its tradition of unity and community support with this year’s Thanksgiving Feast, bringing families together for food baskets, fellowship, and celebration. Over 200 families participated in the event, marking more than 15 years of consistent community impact.

AARLCC is seeking nominations for outstanding leaders and organizations who embody the Nguzo Saba (seven principles) of Kwanzaa. The deadline for submission is December 6, 2025.

      A lot has changed since the first verified case of HIV was found from an unknown man in Kinshasa, Congo, in 1959. Back then, HIV and AIDS were a death sentence. But today, thanks to modern medicine and the right lifestyle choices, people living with HIV can live just as long as those without it. But understanding how HIV progresses — and what you can do to stay healthy — makes all the difference.

     Although President Donald Trump has claimed that “every policy” of his administration was “designed to lift up the American worker,” he has acted consistently, since returning to office in January 2025, to undermine workers’ chosen representatives, America’s labor unions.

Harry Truman, Hiroshima and the Necessity Defense

     The official US line on how the peace plan to end the Ukraine war emerged has Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy, and Jared Kushner developing it, Marco Rubio endorsing it, and then Russia assenting to it. But that story does not hold up.

      Our global security system, based in who has the most and the most modern weapons to enforce deterrence, is gradually becoming irrelevant, undermined by the ever-intensifying climate emergency. If any given nation is experiencing droughts, floods, and unbearable, even life-threatening heat, what difference does it make if its government possesses more nuclear weapons than its adversaries?